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Friday, September 13, 2013

"Seagate has tried its hardest to shrink the read/write heads of hard
drives even further, but with the latest 1 TB 3.5-inch platters, the
company believes they've hit a physical brick wall: the head simply
can't get any smaller. The same goes for the tracks on the platters,
which Seagate claims are as close together as physically possible.
Essentially this means that without increasing the amount of platters
in a drive, producing drives with capacities above 4 TB (four 1 TB
platters) has become rather hard. To get around these physical limits,
Seagate has looked into changing the architecture implemented, coming up
with Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)."